Sign macOS App correctly

[MWin123]

Currently the macOS app is signed with a self signed certificate, and due to a bug, display the wrong message on install. Instead of displaying a warning or an error that the app is self signed, it says that the app is corrupted.

The workaround with removing the quarantine flag works fine, and the price for a Apple license is rather steep because it requires a yearly payment of $ 100.

[josefpolach]

Hi, thanks for the information. I tried to google how to remove the quarantine flag, but unsuccessfully.
Can you share a tutorial on how to remove the quarantine flag, please?

[patschuh]

The command for removing the quarantine flag can be found in the macOS Section of the Readme in this repository and looks like this: xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine kafkaesque-2.0.0.dmg

[josefpolach]

Oh, sorry 🤦‍♂️. I can see it now. Thank you for the answer. I can confirm it works on Monterey (MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro).

[MWin123]

Oh, sorry 🤦‍♂️. I can see it now. Thank you for the answer. I can confirm it works on Monterey (MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro).

@pepapolach Sorry, I didn't get a notification myself but @patschuh already answered the question perfectly.

I'm still on an Intel MacBook, and I'd like to ask you out of curiosity if you did face any problems running KafkaEsque or even Kafka itself on your ARM based MacBook.

Unfortunately GitHub Actions doesn't provide ARM runners yet, so we have to build it with x86/x64.

[amalic-wg]

Strangely the installation through homebrew worked for me on ma Apple Silicon Macbook.
--> https://github.com/patschuh/homebrew-esque

[MWin123]

Strangely the installation through homebrew worked for me on ma Apple Silicon Macbook.

The Homebrew cask definition (kafkaesque.rb) in the homebrew-esque repo contains a postflight block that runs the workaround command after install. So if you install & update Kafkaesque with brew, the manual workaround isn't necessary anymore.

I was basically able to automate the workaround but the main problem, i.e., no valid certificate, still exists.

IIRC such workarounds would prevent you from adding Kafkaesque to the official homebrew-cask tap.